Hal Turner is a radio commentator long-associated with Sean Hannity. (I originally associated him with the Turner Diaries, which is wrong.)
Mr Turner is still hard at work, helping people get worked up into a frenzy.
In a recent posting on his blog, Hal Turner proclaims that David Kellerman, the Freddie Mac CFO that committed suicide last week, was actually murdered...
The acting chief financial officer of troubled mortgage giant Freddie Mac has been made an example of; he was shot and lynched overnight in his Vienna, VA home. Fairfax police have confirmed the death.
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Got what he deserved
This is what happens to executives who approve payment of outrageous bonuses at firms that needed taxpayer bailouts.
So now that he's clarified what really happened, he takes credit for it:
I warned I would incite this
On February 2 of this year, I made clear (here) I would use my radio show "for the purpose of inciting violence against those who caused the financial mess." On that day, I made clear that financial people "would be hurt."
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Let this be a warning to every other firm/bank/company that needed or took taxpayer bailout money: All of you can be gotten-to.
And this bit of braggadocio is followed by an observation that is frighteningly true, and immediately brings people like Rush and Glen Beck to mind. To quote Mr. Turner, "here's the best part".
Here's the best part
I get to sit behind my microphone and talk to hundreds of thousands of totally anonymous listeners about who the bad guys are and why they deserve to be dealt with. I have no way of knowing who - if anyone - will finally be pushed over the edge into actually doing the deed.
Isn't there something illegal here? I'm as pro-free-speech as anyone, but at some point, free speech turns into something else. Shouldn't people have to be responsible for the consequences of their speech? Even political speech. Beyond inciting violence, people shouldn't be able to spread lies without consequences, especially if they're paying to broadcast or publish it. I don't even think people should be able to run ads saying "Mr. Smith is going to raise your taxes". Talk about what Mr Smith did, or what he's voted for, but don't presume to predict what he's going to do in the future. It's kind of a [naive, of course] truth-in-advertising idea.
There just seems to be so much more violent hate speech out there. Maybe I just see it now that my guy's in office, but I sure don't remember this a few years ago. I hate running around with a tin-foil hat, but I seem to see conspiracy and insurrection all over the place now. I swear I didn't use to be this way.